Probably as good a chance that ten years later he was learning an important lesson about how important God is in the jungles of Vietnam (and reading Playboy).
I guess I took issue with how quickly so many here piled on Hefner with knee-jerk clichés when news of his death came last night, "Moral degenerate! Reprobate! Burn in hell!" as if Hugh Hefner single-handedly infected a straight-laced Eisenhower America with filth, forever corrupting a once chaste and virtuous society. Hefner merely provided American culture with something it was asking for at the time it was asking for it. He was as much a product of post-war cultural upheavals as he was an influence on them.
True enough about ‘Nam. There’s no one kind of person in a generation.
I react very strongly to Hef because I saw how his philosophy completely destroyed (and is still destroying) people my age and younger. But you did make me think about how he came to be, and I’m closer to working out a problem that’s been bugging me for a while.
So thanks. We crusty Freepers do learn a thing or two once in a while.